Saso Dzeroski#
| Membership Number: | 4335 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SLOVENIA |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Department head, Dept. Knowledge Technologies, Jožef Stefan Institute; [Scientific councillor (2006 - present) Deputy head, Dept. Knowledge Technologies (2004 - 2007), Higher sci. associate (2001 - 2006), Associate (1995 - 2001) Assistant (1989-1995)]], Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2016 - present Professor (guest lecturer) / Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2010 - present Full professor / Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 2010 - 2018 Scientific councillor / Centre of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- 1999 - 2014 Professor / School of Enviromental Sciences, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
- 1996. Postdoc ERCIM Fellow / Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Heraklion, Greece
- 1995 - 1996 Postdoc - ERCIM Fellow / German National Research Center for Computer Science, Sankt Augustin, Germany
- 1993 PECO fellow / Computer Science Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
- 1991 - 1992 British Council Scholar / The Turing Institute, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Computer science and artificial intelligence
- Machine learning (ML) and data mining (DM)
- Applications of ML and DM in environmental sciences
- Applications of ML and DM in life sciences
- Computational scientific discovery
- Constraint-based data mining
- Ensemble learning
- Inductive logic programming
- Mining data streams
- Predicting structured outputs
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Foreign Member, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts
- 2008 ECCAI fellow, European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence. Title awarded for Pioneering Work in the field of AI and Outstanding Service for the European AI community.
- 1996 Jožef Stefan Golden Emblem Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation [Awarded by the Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia to at most one PhD per year for each of three categories: natural, technical, and life sciences]
- 1995 - 1996 ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) Fellowship / [Awarded to 5% of applicants for the particular call]
